Improvement in sewing-machines



UNITE STATES EDWARD MURP HY,

PATENT, FFICE OF NEW YORK, NDY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEWING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176. SSO. dated May 2, 1876 {application filed January 28, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD MURPHY, of New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefullmprovement in Sewing-Machines and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of thesame,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which-' Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a top or plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 an endviewr The purpose and object. of the present invention are to construct a sewing machine which can be manufactured at a greatly-reduced cost, and at the same time be durable and effective in use; and it is designed more particularly as an improvement in that class of sewing-machines known as chain-stitch machines,and consists in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and subsequently pointed out in the claim. In many chain-stitch machines heretofore, the lower shaft has been a rock-shaft, serving to operate the feed and looper. the upper shaft being a rotary shaft for operating the needlebar, andworking the lower rock-shaft; but in machines so constructed a difficulty is' met with in moving the feed in the right time-relative to the needle-bar.

In my improved sewing-machine, constructed as will be presently described, the shafts are reversed by making the lower one a rotary shaft, and operating thereby the stitchmaking mechanism and the feeding device, and having the upper shaft a rock-shaft, for operating the needle-bar.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the frame of the machine, to which is connected the cloth-plate B and speed-wheel D, with the driving pulley U, belt E, and the face-plate F. Connected to the speed-wheel D, and passing through the lower part of the frame A, is the main shaft a, to the end of which is formed an eccentric, b, for receiving an eccentric rod, 0, said rod being connected to the rock-shaft d by a crank, 0. Upon the front end of the rock-shaft d is an arm, f, formed with a slotted end, for the reception of one end of a pin, 70, upon the needle-bar g. The vpresser-bar h, carrying the foot h, has secured thereto a spring, 2', said bar being raised by a tipper, j.

The hook or looper, as shown at l, is formed of a single piece of sheet metal, and has a bend, m, and is pivoted at 0 to the body of the machine. An oscillating motion is im parted to the hook or looper from the rotary shaft on by a pin, 1", thereon, working within a curved slot, it, said pin being secured eccentrically upon a circular disk, 19.

Adjoining the circular disk 19 on shaft or is a feed-cam, s, for operating the feedbar t, said feed-bar being forced back in place, after being operated on by the cam, by a spring, u. The motion of the bar 15 is regulated by a regulator, v. .The tipper j, in raising the pressure-bar, bears against a pin, to, thereon, Working within a vertical slot in the face-plate F. Motion being given to the machine by turning the driving pulley G, the main shaft 00 is revolved,"

giving to the shaft d a rocking motion by the eccentric I), through the rod 0 and crank e, which is rigidly secured to the shaft d, and to the needle-bar, through pin 70 and crank f, the latter also being rigidly secured to the'end of the shaft. Simultaneously with the motion of the needle-bar, the hook l receives an oscillating motion from the shaft or by means of I the circular disk 19 and pin 1', the latter working within the curved slot n, the stitch being made in the manner usual in chain-stitch ma- EDWARD MURPHY.

Witnesses Tnos. A. MAOAULEY,

RICHARD NEVILLE. 

